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r ~ ' ~ r ~ ,re. 6Z stn - %r //2 ~----- L - t ADMIRALTY OFFICE, §irr. 26 ,1826. NOTICE is hereby given, Th at a SES SI ON of OYER and TERMINER and GAOL DELIVERY, for the TRIAL of OFFENCES committed on the HIGH SEAS, within the Jurisdiction at the ADMIRALTY of ENGLAND, will he held at :r(YSTICE HALL, in the OLD BAILEY, LONDON, on,'l`tizsnsr , the 24th day of October next, at Eight, , o'Clock in, The Morning :_And all Sheriffs, Gaolers, and Xt:epers at Prisons, in whose custody any Prisoners, charged with offence", committed on the High Seas, or within the said Juris diction, may be, are hereby required to transmit a copy of the Commitment of every such Prisoner to Mr. BICKNELL, the Soli citor of the Admiralty, on Spring Garden Terrace, London, in order that the necessary measures may be taken, for removing all such Prisoners to His Majesty's Gaol of Newgee, for trial at the said intended Session : And all Mayors, Justices, Coroners, and other Officers, before whom any Inquisitions, Informations, Exa minations, or Recognizances, may hays been taken touching any such Offences, are required to transmit the same forthwith to Mr. Tuomas SHELTON, the Clerk of Arraigns of the High Court of Admiralty of England, at his Office, at the Sessions House in the Old Bailey, London. J. W. CROKER. VICTUALLING-OFFICE, Ocrowcz 9, 1826. T HE Commissioners for Victualling His Majesty' s Navy, &c. do hereby give Notice, that on TUESDAY, the 24th inst., they will be ready to receive Tenders in writing (scaled up), and treat for the supply of the under-mentioned Articles, One hundred Tons,of MUSCOVAI)O SUGAR. Eighty tons of COCOA. Fifteen tons of BUTTER. Fifteen ton's of CHEESE. 'Thirty tons of Nli3V OATMEAL. :twenty tons of NEW VIRGINIA 'LEAF TOBACCO. Forty tons of NEW BLACK SMYRNA RAISINS. Two hundred Bugs of KENTISH HOPS (growth of 1826 .) Two Thousand Six Hundred Sachs of BISCUIT MEAL. Two Hundred and Fifty' Quarters of PALE MALT. One Hundred and Fifty Quarters of AMBER MALT. lc , . Thousand Gallons of Good Strong Full-bodied TENE RIFrE WINE. "fen Thousand Yards of CALICO. Ten Thousand Yards of FLANNEL. The whole to be delivered into his Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, one halt' by the 2bth of November, and the remainder by the 24th of December next. And also for—Five Tons of EAST INDIA RICE, and Six Hundred Thousand WILLOW RODS, To be likewise delivered into the Stores at Deptford, the former immediately, and the latter between the let of December next, and the Ist of March, 1827, in equal monthly proportions. Samples of the. Sugar, CoCoa, Raisins, and Rice, of not less than three pounds each, of the Oatmeal of not less than three quarts each, and of the Malt not less than one quart, will he required to be produced with the Tenders.—Samples also of the Willow Rods must be produced with the Tenders. Those of the Tenerifle Wine, and the Calico and flannel, will be exhi bited at this Office. The Conditions of the Contract may be seen at this Office. - Each Tender must specify the price in words at length, and be delivered before One o'Clock on the day appointed ; and the Per edit who makes the Tender, or some Person on his behalf, must at tend to answer when called for. M. WALLER CLIFTON. VHILIAN MINING ASSOCIATION.- Notice is hereby given, That at au EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of the CHI LIAN MINING ASSOCIATION, specially called for the pur pose, held on the 16th OCTOBER instant, pursuant to notice. It was Resolved, Than this ASSOCIATION be DIS SOLVED pursuant to the recommendation of the DIRECTORS, made in consequence of the PROPRIETORS being unwilling to advance any more Capital." And Notice is hereby also given, That another EXTRAOR DINARY GENERAL ME TING of the PROPRIETORS in this ASSOCIATION, wilrbe held at One o'Clock precisely, on MONDAY the 6th of NOVEMBER next, at the CITY of LONDON TAVERN, Bishopsgate-street, for the purpose of confirming or rescinding the above Resolution for dissolving the Armek.lation, at which Meetinresch Proprietor is particularly re.. Vested to attend, as no act can be done unless Thirty Proprietors },e Preterit. SAMUEL CARDOZO, Seel envy. W inchester House, Oet. 18, 1826. POCKNELL'S POTTED SHRIMPS, from the ISLE OF WIGHT and CALAIS. These Shrimps 14 " long been proverbial for their delicacy and flavour; and' whet renders them peculiarly grateful to the taste, anti far sups -6" to any others, is their being potted on the spot, immediately after being caught ; and as a wholesome and delicious accompani ment to the B . +akfast, Luncheon, and Supper Table, they are eQn fidently re+ t•-• .11 , nded to the notice of the public. Sold in V a s ' Is. 6u. , •‘..n, at J. Pociatar.es Shell and 'Dried Fish rehouse, 173, Fleet-street. Also, Anchovy Paste, 2s. pee pot; real Gorgon& Anchovies+, Ss. per jar, and Pickled• Oysters, Is. es t i. 111 „1 3,, per j ar . Oysters—The very best Natives, ss. Per }la r fel . Country Orders punctually executed. CLARK'S GENERAL OUTFITTING • • WAREHOUSE, for the EAST and WEST INDIES and' SOUTH. AMERICA, EXETER 'CHANGE, STRAND. 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The Truatees and Comniittee r i : n i t. and Gentry, that they still conduct inform the Nobility goille above Establi s hment for theßezefatif industrious and in mannislet:baniee (who have large families), by offering their andiacired Articles in the cabinet Line of the best workmanship,cheaper than by any House in London, no other profit being requiredthan to satisfy the warehouse rentttnd incidental expenees.6,:i, constant employment to enable them to support'gtl7eitrisfifaed withe„ the number of whom appear by the Books of the last Quarterlytnili- Meeting to be 146. From the great patronage the Conrlittste have received, they are in hopes of increasing that number. The. followieg is a Specimen of the LowPricesd.asked ; a l l Geode warranted:— .e. a . Five feet Mahogany Bedstead, four-post 4 I 0 0 Teilt ditto , - - . _ 1 6 0 Bordered Mattress to fit . . _ 1 1 0 Mahogany Drawers with solid end, . S 5 0 Eight Mahogany Chairs - ' . 610 0 ntlingatiy Pembroke Table -2 0 0 Feather Bed free from duet and smell, . from .£2 12 0 to 8 8 0 1) raw i ng-roorn Sofa, From £5 5 0 to 7 7 0 Nora Bedstead - " - - S 8 0 • Mahogany Horse-Hair Sofa - - 610 0 upwards A quantity of Paper Hanging. for Bed, Dining, and Drawing rooms, at nearly Half-price. The Trade will find it Worth their attention. f Houses Furnish e d at a few days' notice, and Apa r t ments in a " hnnrc—Goods packed free of expenoe except the matting-. COMMITTEK. T. Corder IJ. Wilson T. H as l er IJ. Unett TII RNE L A gent. J. Carter W. Waghoru LASLER, ikeretary MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1826. THE ROYAL SOCIETY. (From the John Bull.) At a time when the rage for new institutions, new col leges, and new societies for enlightening the rising genera tion is so hot and violent, our attention has been repeat edly called to the quackery and mismanagement of the Royal Society; which should be truly, as it is nominally, the first scientific body in the country—it is, in fact, the only accredited representative of the national talent—the only body to which eminent strangers are recommended and introduced.' Any body who will take the trouble to attend its meetings and witness its proceedings will very soon be convinced that under its present management it is as likely to exalt the national character in the eye of scien tific strangers for its wisdom and talent, as to excite their admiration of its grace and dignity. In the midst of all the difficulties with which the Royal Society is threatened, and even encumbered, charges of ignorance and inability are made against its Presi dent by Mr. Herapatli, who seems determined, us the boys say, to " have it out" with Sir Humphry. The fol lowing letter appeared, on 'Friday in 'the Times, and all )r contains matter which if answerable, must be answered, (at least in all other societies it Would be inevitable), we subjoin it, desirous of putting the learned combatants in the field of discussion fairly and openly before the public. That Sir Humphrey Davy is a man of resplendent genius —a giant of ability in his line, no one can doubt; but we always took leave to doubt, as indeed have many other much wiser persons, his competence to fill the chair of the Royal Society. To describe the necessary qualifications for that office would be invidious, since it would imply that the present President did not possess them; what sur prises us is, that the following letter shows, not a want of consequence or dignity in the President, but a shyness of discussion in the Philosopher:— " TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. . . 4 SlR—Having discoiered the way in which Sir H. Davy mid his friends endeavour to conceal their inability to meet the challenges they have drawn on themselves, I trust you will allow me to say a few words on the subject. It seems these individuals, agreeably to their favourite system of whispering, where it would be dangerous to speak out, are propagating reports that the course I am taking is new and unusual ; altogether without precedent, and there fore beneath their notice. Now I shall not spend time in showing, in general terms, that where justice cannot be obtained, the ability of scientific men is, like the sword of soldiers, the weapon to which they appeal ; but I shall cite a few facts. They will at once prove, that the most eminent men have given public challenges by problems, whenever the object was to try the strength of the scientific world, to secure the honours of a discovery, or to foil an enemy; and that they have always been accepted. But what is still better, I shall have to cite a case exactly in point with mine, in which the President and Royal Society h a v e b e en publicly chal lenged by a gentleman, who considered himself injured by them. I shall have, however to add, that the illustrious man who then occupied the chair of the Society, did not plead dignity for avoiding the challenge, or what then 'really was the case, the want of precedent; but he did what every man of sterling talent would do—he accepted and answered the problem. Afterwards I shall take a course which will soon decidedly convince the world, whether it is this affected dignity, or absolute and positive inability, which puts the lock of silence on Sir Iluinplirey and his friends. " In 1658, Pascal published defiances to the mathema tical world, for the purpose of trying its strength, or of securing to himself some discoveries relative to the cy cloid.* They were partially answered by Dr. Wallis La laure, &c. About the same period Fermat de fi ed a ll the mathematicians of Europe with some problems in the theory of numbers,t which were answered in part by Wal lis. The latter end of the 17th century witnessed the extraordinary controversy of the two Bernouillis,' John and James, two brothers, who, in consequence of some difference, publicly challenged each other. John Ber nouilli having comprehended the mathematicians of Europe in one of his problems, the two great rivals, Newton and Leibnits, answered it.t " On Pascal's challenges 40 and 20 pistoles were staked; and on one of the Bernouillis a sum of money was placed, but I forget the amount. " When Newton and Leibnitz had by their partizans long disputed for the honour of the discovery of fluxions, the latter complained to the Royal Society, of injustice done him by Dr. Keil, one of Newton's advocates. On this the Society appointed a committee to examine into the pretensions of the illustrious claimants. The . decision being injutions to the honour of Leibnitz, he determined to foil the skill of Newton, the president 11, and the obnoxi ous Royal Society, and thereupon publicly propoSed to them, by way of challenge to the English, his problem of the trajectories. Newton, then 73 years old, and in the height of his celebrity, received, accepted, and answered this challenge the same night. Such was the president, and such his conduct, in 1715. " From these facts I leave every candid mind to draw its conclusions respecting the propriety of my conduct, and the cause of that pursued by Sir H. Davy and his friends. That, however, I may put it to the test, and prove to the world that the plea of dignity is a mere subterfuge in these individuals to escape what they have not ability to encoun ter, I now invite all the mathematicians in Europe to try their skill on the solution of either one of the problems I have proposed to Sir H. Davy and the Royal Society, in your paper of January 10, and July 1, 1826; and if any gentleman feels disposed to try either of them, I will, within one month from this time, enter into a contract to pay him, if he succeed before the Ist of February, 1827, SOU, provided he engage to pay me the same sum if be fail. Sir Humphrey will see the advantage I have now given to private dealing. If the dignity of the Royal So ciety would really be lowered in a collision with me, it now need not; but if this dignity be, as I hesitate.not to say it is, a subterfuge to hide incompetence, Sir Humphrey must exercise his ingenuity to prevent the truth from appearing. " I ought to add , th ere is one thing more which operates to ke e p my opponents in silence. The President knows he h as treated me ill —exceedingly ill—and that in this treatment, he has also acted in opposition to the duties of his office, and injured the interests 'of the public. He is, therefore, most anxiously solicitous to prevent inquiry. He thus, ey_. treated,eseta voted calculates, that if he can suppress public feeling for a short time, I shall exhaust myself, and things will die away. in i j v i h ir o e t h h as em in pr i t el lo it n i g ns tl h m is pu r b es li e c a r ra il e l a a t llory de- Progress f d • against one ma ano n th t e o r the Royal Society, 0 discover ; how long regardi e „ hii life to the advancement of their interests in the - of their character, of justice, and of feeling, wilt suffer thenlisel e their P'resident ' s . v ' s math em • e nt s private animosity ; how long the or . mathematical to be made the tools . of avenging andphilosophical world will quietly sub mit to s ee a Hutton's . Iti r a n t e i member r:if their body thus oppressed by a mere chemical experimentalist, I can '" — t, articles ' Cy c l o id and ritigid Dictionary, and Rees a t a Ludlam's Ruch meal.' Fryer, p. SM. by meats of Mathematics, sth Edition, t a Hutton's Mathernati Woodhouse's hop.. Probl ems . 'Cycloid,' Dictionary, ar tido II ,", Hutton's Alathernatiea l I Newto n .'"Dictionary, articles ' Keil and not, of course, be expected to determine; but I beg to ob serve that Sir Humphrey was never more in error in his life—not even in his ' ships' copper-protectors'—than in supposing that I shall exhaust myself. The sequel will demonstrate this to him, and with not more truth, but with greater propriety than I can tell him. I am, Sir, yo ur o b e di e nt humble servant, "Cranford, Oct. 17. ,4 JOHN HERAPATH." THE MURDERS NEAR LEATHERHEAD. On Wednesday last, it will be recollected that Hall, the chief constable, and Pople, set out for Maidstone, in con sequence of information having been received,, that Mary Ayres, the grand-daughter of the old man Akehurst, and her paramour, had been seen in that part of the country immediately subsequent to the murders. On the officers' arrival at Eltham, they met with an encampment of Gip sies, from whom they learned some particulars respecting the parties of whom they were in pursuit. The Gipsies deseritred the person of Mary Ayres and her paramour very accurately; the latter,' they said, was a middle-sized man, very stout, and his face deeply scarred with the small pox; the last time they had seen him he was dressed in a smockfrock and velveteen trousers. ,He went by the nick name of " Cobbler Bill;" was a shoemaker by trade; but his real name was Wm. Page. At the above encampment they also ascertained, that "Cobbler Bill" was wanted at Manchester, for horse-stealing. The officers -then cut across the country to Bromley, and from thence to.Becken ham, into Surrey ; visiting Croydon, ileddintorigershat , I ton, Salton, Cheam, and the whole extent of that county, without, however,. meeting with the parties whom they were in pursuit of. At Esher they came up with several trampers, all of whom said that they knew Mary Ayres and " Cobbler Bill," but that they had not seen them for 'some time before Leatherhead fair. In the course of their journey, on arriving at Ewell, a woman named Lucas, who resides in that town, communicated to them that she had seen Mary Ayres a few days prior to Leatherhead fair, but whither she was gone, or what direction she had taken, could not be ascertained, and on Saturday morning the officers returned to town, after an unsuccessful pursuit of I four days after the fugitives. Subsequent to the examination of the premises, after the perpetration of the murders, the police-officers, it will be remembered, did not discover any money secreted in the cottage. Since that search took place, however, 21 guineas have been found in a place of concealment that was little expected. Mr. Hankey, the magistrate, all along conceiv ing that the poor old man had hidden a little treasure in the house, did not feel satisfied with the search that had previously taken place, and accordingly commenced one himself on Thursday last, and succeeded in hunting out the above sum in gold. After having diligently rummaged all the crevices and places in the rooms above and below stairs, Mr. Hankey went into a small pantry, where the old people used to keep their stock of victuals. In thi3 place he observed an old churn, that had not, apparently been in use for years, and on taking off the top, and look ing into it, lie perceived a part of an old silk stocking. On taking it up, the stocking was covered with cobwebs, and feeling heavy, on turning it inside out, the guineas, that in all probability had been there for years, rolled out. It is a curious circumstance, that when Pople, the officer, searched the pockets of Elizabeth Haines,the housekeeper, on the morning after the murders were perpetrated, he din ' covered in one of them the remaining half of the silk stocking, which, it appear e d, sh e ac t ua ll y k ept h er money in, but was, empty on that occasion. The Rev. Mr. Bolland was at Union-hall yesterday, where he attended for the purpose of being present at an examination of a man named Jones, who was apprehended on Saturday last, on suspicion of having been implicated in the murders at Fetcham. It, however, turned out that lie was perfectly innocent of that charge ; but, in the course abis examination it was discovered that. he had robbed a man named Ball, at Leatherhead fair, part of the property having been found on his person. Yesterday, the charge. being fully proved, he was committed for trial. Pl?RT11BR TARTICULARN. Red Lion Tavern, Leatherhead, Saturday evening. The Magistrates have been actively employed in the examination of persons, against some of whom much sus picion had been expressed by many of the inhabitants of Fetcham, and more particularly against a man named Ben nett. Mr. Williams, the Rev. Mr. Bolland, and the Baron de Tessier, arrived before noon, this day, at the Lion Tavern, Leatherhead. Bennett, his wife, and & daughter of theirs, about 11 years of age, with two young men, John and Thomas Brown, the sons of Mrs. Bennett by a former husband, were in attendance. It appears that John Brown is in the service of two maiden ladies, named Pick ering, who reside about &mile distant from the cottage of Akehurst. The old man was very much attached to him, and he was in the habit of visiting the cottage almost daily. Mrs. Haines was his godmother, and she always evinced a strong partiality for John Brown. About three weeks ago, when he called at the cottage, he was told by Haines, that old Master Akehurst was very ill, and she did not think he would survive long. He (John Brown) . said to Mrs. Haines, " Well, I hope you have taken care of yourself," meaning that she had been able to save a little money to support herself after the old man's death. Mrs. Haines nodded a kind of assent, but made no other answer. On Thursday last, John Brown went to the cottage, and said that he was sure the old woman had concealed some money in some part of the house and at the request of Mrs. Ayres, Akehurst's daughter, he commenced a strict search. On removing some lumber and rubbish, which were in the wash-house, adjoining one of the kitchens, an old churn was discovered. On is being removed from the place where it had in all probability been standing for a very long period, a jingling noise was heard. John Brown exclaimed, " Here is money." On taking off the lid and examining the inside, ten guineas were found in a piece of an old silk glove or stocking.— Old Mrs. Ayres was quite overjoyed at the discovery, and she and John Brown proceeded further in their search.— On a shelf, covered with dirt and cobwebs, they disco vered a sort of tun-dish, in the funnel of which they found eleven guineas. It is believed that. this money was secreted by Mrs., Haines. The circumstance of John Browncaused many of the neighbours toblve fi r l y ld - ii7ib the money theireralin— remarks--some of them ob serving, " those who hide can find." The Magistrates were ansious to give the young men (John and Thomas Brown) %Hand went to the hou se a full opportunity of exculpating themselves. Yesterday the Rev. Mr. where John Brown lived, and searched his boxes, but found nothing whatever to implicate him in the murder.— Th e Magistrates afterwards interrogated both John and Thomas :Brown, anti expressed to them their entire con viction of their innocence. Elizabeth Bennett, the girl, •was then exarnined—Sh e had stated, on a previous day , that her 'father and mother, who lived in the cottage near to Akehurst, were up nea r l y , all the night of the murder , and other circumstances tend ing to criminate them. • Since her last e xam i nat i on, she had been evidently intimidated, and we doubt wh e th er i t of thoef public - r h l, ou Bennett, se and her wasboth father, slaot.tidonanad form fre quent n w as politic in the magistrate` to allow her to go h ome w i th her parents, who charged her with being a w i c k e d liar , and that her statement is a mere inventi on . D uring tht in his protestations of innocence , using the word s , He " So help me God, I had no hand i n thatjob." Hs lept n examinati ont with his wife in a back room on the night of the murder, and, to go down stairs, must have p assed I h the room in which his son, Th omas Brown h (the y outh went to Akehurst's cottage door, and first discovered the murder), was sleeping. in the middle of the ni g h t, step-father told him, th a t he h d`tutun passed throeg his Thomas Brown admitted that h is •ailsep, and that h e while. he (Thor s ' iirow,r l ), w" went d own stairs ;- - but he den' t he truth of the girl's steternerfli" thikt his father fold him to stick to the same story he : - /uld told before." Bennett was asked why he left his cottage. He said that he„ went only a few steps from the door, to a heap of bricks, for a certain purpose. Ha must, therefore, have been dressed at the time; and oil being told that be had no oc casion to have left his bed-room for that purpose, he made no reply, except by reiterating his former asseverations of his innocence of the charge. Bennett, we understand, will • be examined again on Monday next. The cottage of old Akehurst, since Thursday last, has been locked Up, his daughter and her son having deserted the place, and returned to their former residence. Before her departure, she told a person who called upon her at the cottage, " that she believed her daughter, Mary Ayres, had done it;" and a brother of Mary Ayres said, " it would not give him half so much sorrow to see her hang ed, as it did to see the poor old creatures as they lay mur dered." It ought to be mentioned, that a very superficial examination of the bodies took place by the young man, an assistant to a surgeon, who gave evidence before the Coroner's jury, and that he was incorrect in stating that the wounds were given by a blunt instrument. The Rev. John Boland, Mr, 'Williams, and other Megietrates, dis covered injuries in the heads of the old people which the young surgeon had not observed. The old man wore a piece of flannel next his head; over which he also wore two cotton ni ght,-caps . The caps and flannel being ex amined were found to have been cut through. There were two puncturis parallel with each other, at the distance of half an inch. On examining the cap and head of the - old woman, at the back, two similar injuries were found, which satisfied the MagistraOs that the same instrument, in form somewhat resembling a coach winch, had been used by the murderer to destroy both victims. 4vt _ek4iteextuogytt.i^,termiktited t1),0-1,biy,. one of the masts gave nif OindessinWittiltbitiVehat. he was Somewhat sanguine that the 'plan which the Ma gistrates had determined to adopt would he the means of , unravelling the mystery which at present envelopes this horrible transaction, and that a few days would bring to light the real offender. A man namtd.Saunders was conveyed before the Ma gistrates on Saturday evenink He had been apprehended near London as a suspicious character, and taken to Len therhead ;. but, after an examination of some length, the Magistrates were convinced of his hmocence_of this crime, and he was set at liberty. (LATign PARTICU LARS.) Since the bodies have been interred, the cottage where the inhuman murders were committed has been completely deserted, and is now locked up. So great has been the terror excited in the minds of the country people, since the murders, that no human being is to he seen now within a considerable distance of Akehurst's cottage after nightfall, every one carefully avoiding the approach to it, and going considerably out of their way for that purpose. Shortly after the murders had been perpetrated, it was reported very generally in the neighbourhood of Feteham that a young man named Ratcliffe, who, it appeared, had robbed Elizabeth Haines about three years age, had been seen at Leatherhead prior and subsequent to the murder*. It has been correctly ascertained since, that this person was tried, convicted, and transported for the offence. The parents of Ratcliffe, who are aged and respectable people reside in the vicinity of Esher, and since the perpetration of the murders, they have been continually annoyed by numbers of people charging their son with being the mur derer, and accusing them (the parents) with actually con cealing him and keeping him out of the way of justice. The annoyance to those poor people has been sogreat that on Fri day last the poor old father proceeded over to Fetcharn,and had an interview with the Rev. Mr. Bolland, to whom he mentioned the above facts, and produced a letter from his son, against whom such a horrible imputation had gone abroad. It was dated in April last, from Sydney, New South Wales, and addressed to his father, the contents of which, Mr. Rolland observed, were highly creditable to the writer. It appeared that since the young man's con viction, he had evinced the sincerest contrition for the felony he had committed; his conduct soon after his ar rival in the Colonies was such as to entitle hip, to the con fidence of those placed over him, he was soon liberated, anti on the date of his last letter, was cultivating a little farm of his own, in the vicinity of the town, had tot mar ried, kept his horse and cow, and was as comfortable as his heart could wish. The poor old father supplicated Mr. Rolland to have the above particulars made as public as possible, in order that the impression of his POWs haw ing committed murder might be removed from the minds of the public, and to show his neighbours that they were wrong in their conjectures, and were doing him an injus tice by ringing in his .ears the horrible imputation of being the father of the murderer of the unfortunate Akehurst 'and his housekeeper. Mr. Rolland promised the old man, to do all in his power for the purpose of counteracting such an erroneous impression ; and that tentleman requested the writer, if possible, to give publicity to the above facts, through the medium of the newspapers, which, he observ ed, would operate as a precaution and save innocent per sons from further annoyance, which must be exceedingly painful to their feelings. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LLOYD'S, OCT. 21. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 20.—Wind E. S. E .—Arrived the Crofton, Booth, from St. Peteradmrgh. Pasted, the John, Brown, from Havanna. Sailed, the Commerce, Lindsay, from Charlezton. Dula, OCT. 20.—Wind E.—His Majesty's ship Hursu ► pawed through from the westward, about 8 o'clock. FALMOUTH, OCT. 19.—E.S.E. to S.E.—Arrived the Zephyr packet, from the Mediterranean. Sailed the Fanny, Taylor, Aldbro, Wenham, and William Helyer, --, for St. Michael's; Jane Vesey, for Forena ; Hieing Sun, Budd, for Seville ; Ruby, Cotneley, for Lisbon ; Elizabeth, Henderson, and De Albeon, Russell, for Port-au-Prince; sod Skylark, Itath, for Malta. Ltvaaroot., OcT. 19.—E.S.E.—The : William Byrne, from New York, passed Holyh ea d y es t er d ay , a t 11 a . m . A rr i ve d the Dolphin, Prelin, from Stralsund ; Flora, Roderkirk, from Rotter dam ; Miry Ann, Hilleray, from St. John's; It. .1., Thyme, from Quebec; and King George, from Jamaica. Sailed the Henry, Thomas, from Alexandria ; and Diana. Croker, from Messina. Gitavesxmo, Orr. tO.—Arrieeti the Wita, Malin, from Oohs. Sailed the Wellesley, Ferriman ; and General Harcourt, Mason, for Jamaica; Prince Leopold, Bell, for St. Vincent's; and the George Hibberts, Drysdale, for Antigua. We si l al i ew av i: e ifim o x f t t leed e i n irto li el e a a t rd es it asserted , rtl but we never wit nessed the fact until yesterday, that it was possible to make a chain and collar to confine a flea,' in a manner t similar iof Itlioerctifloarildlisilligireupi n cl i e c a ' r a ly s an exhibition of th ei of th is io t i ,w es i , i, a w i i i t a i - i flea and chain ; the latter, we a kennel , formed of a :ch !irry-stone. The chain consists of 22 circular links, visible to the naked eye, andthe • • collar may be easily discerned 'through a magnifier of no greater power than a com mon readiniglass ; the whirls is an light, that the flea runs arid gambols us though it waa of little incum bailee. The same person exhibits four grog's of tea spoons, so sma ll lis to be packed in a cherry -stone:; he some tine since made a common fine workin g saaPdtootgh'isist;A:mlanemiainngeniou s inecha. needle to unac"'.and in which was secreted a pair of seisms. With Itilthisittligeanuityc' the exhibitor does nrs, but quite the co n - Th u rsday afternoon, about half-past four, a man ,„ 48 , from a distance, obierved to walk deliberately into the Suir, at Grannagli Castle, in th e county Kil kenny, about two miles and a half from 'Waterford, towards Carrick. lie sunk, and rose no more. His body was not picked up until next morning. lie ap pears to have been a man of middle a.* mid size, quite unknown in the neighbourhood, except as a begga r .— Freeman's Journal:. . . . . . . .. •, , • ' , l* t '.l. l i ii ii li f '.-5.4.,...„, . • . 7 , _.,, ~ , 4 1,1ttp. ' ,:t .i t '.'iY,...4' g : .i. 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SUBTERRANEAN TIMBER. discovering largetyedroughtht of the late summer has been the means of fens of this country, masses t t iin he b y er h t a l v ee e p l l a y in eln un b d e i d strbe iix d ' the for centuries, perhaps thousands of years : they have been found at sundry depths, from 4 feet to 40.—Where a tree has been embedded within two or three yards of the sur face, it has been readily discovered during the late sum mer, by the total absence of all vegetation above it : in the midst of a close of good f en pasture, patches of unproduc tive soil have precisely exhibited the figure and size of the tice, which no doubt octatimked the sterility of the ground above it. The Rev. Mr. Wray, of Barditcy, near Lincoln, had observed several of these steril patches in one of his pastures, and was led by the spirit of investigation to seek the cause: a number of labourers were set to work, and in one instance an enormous tree, containing upwards of a thousand feet of solid timber, rewarded their exertions : the outer or sap wood was in a state of decomposition, but on cleiring that away, the heart was discovered in per fect soundness, being changed into a ponderous black sub stance like ebony ; and if not worked soon after it was brought to light, this wood in a few hours became too hard to be shaped by any instrument requiring a keen edge.— Another curious characteristic ia, that, on using the wedge, the wood cleaves as smoothly and with, almost as level a surface as if sawn : the fibres are probably converted into a mass homogen'ous with the wood, and tlilus the wedge operates with a uniform power in right linesi—lt is inte resting to trace the process by which a district that was once firm earth, has been changed into a boggy fen: a pro cess too which it might at first be imagined would pro duce the reverse of the effect, viz. by raising the level : that this, however, has been the case, is evidently shown by the following s e ction of a we ll, sun k i n a town on the edge of the fen district. _ Line of surface. - Modern cultivation; and foundations of buildings, with modern brick and tile fragments. Bog earth, containing bones, foundation stones, and excavations. g yards. Fen turf : roots of trees, and shells. 3 yard .. Bog earth : weeds and remains of aquatic • plants. 4 yards. Bog earth : ditto. s yards. Ro b ti c r e. eart e l he s , strnware, and fragments et , shl. Foundations, bones of horses and sheep 6 yards. Bones of the beaver in bog earth. Vegetable fragments. 7 yards. Bog earth. A thin stratum of sand. _ _ Bog earth. Prevent cultivation of the lands. 1 'ant Inundation• First cultivation of ! the new Fen lands.' Several inunda. Lions and forma. Ikons of Fen. 8 yard*, Bram earthenware. Roman glazing, Ru. man tiles. Timi of the H. mine. Vegetable remains, awl cultivated earth. Forests. 9 yards. A stone causeway or ancient road, per. haps haling.path. Good firm earth. Level of the Trent River; a shingly l 9 yards.. gravel ; being the original stratum, on which the foregoing are depo. sited. Before the age of the Romans,with very little Fen ground. It is conjectured from the above section, (which should at be read from the b** to the top,) that- the outfall to the sea being much lower in the early ages, the waters passed off rapidly, and allowed a causeway to be used which is above nine pulls below the present surface : the existence of this causeway implies all the other processes of civilization. The outfall of the sett soon after becoming Obstructed, we have the first formation of fen, and the up rooting of the forest trees. A deposit of two yards is the result of these first inundations : and at six yards depth there are signs of attempt. to redeem the fan deposit, and convert it to agricultural purposes. These efforts were afterwards swallowed up by subsequent inundations, the deposit of which is about three yards in depth, and the surface of which is now in cultivation. There are devia tions, of course, in different situations, both as to the order and proportions. The example here taken was considered as possessing every circumstantial proof in explanation of the origin of the Fens.--Lincoln Mercury. EAST WENess.—An event which has afforded most general satisfaction and heedful joy among the inhabitants of all classes on the estates of Dysart and Wemyss than that which took place at Weinyss Castle on Tuesday, the 10th instant, has rarely, if ever before occurred. We allude to the union of Miss Weinyss of Weinyss with Lord Loughborough, the eldest son of the Right Hon. the Earl of Rosslyn. On this happy occasion the inhabitants of these populous estates vied with each other in their demonstrations of that respect and attachment so sincerely felt by all for the illustrious individuals of this auspicious union. Every mark of joy which genuine feeling could dictate, was displayed by the inhabitants of the parish of Weinyss. It were worse than idle, it, would be presumptuous to dwell on the general merits, or the peculiar virtues, and the rare accomplish ments, both personal and mental, which adorn the character of so distinguished an i n di v id ua l as the amiable bride. Her removal, however, from the ancient halls of her ancestors, from the scenes of her nativity, and above all, from the nume rous objects of her charity, will at once account for, and we hope excuse the acknowledgment that our feelings on this occasion were not altogether of an un-. mingled description. Early in the morning banners were seen expanding- their ample folds to the wind from lordly hall, turreted castle, and ancient towers, along an extent of some miles of coast, while the vil lages of Wemyss, and the adjoining hills and promon tories, were decorated with every emblem of rejoicing. Presently a fairy fleet, most tastefully adorned, with a display of flags and streamers of every colour, was seen ga il y g lidi n g along the smooth bosom of the waters towards Wemyss Castle, the seat of the' an cient family of Wemyss. it consisted of the Buck haven fishing-boats maimed by the fishermen, whose joyous carol, as they passed alon g , c h eere d b y t h e as sembled inhabitants of the villages on the coast, gave a most exhilarating effect to, the scene of general joy. At four o'clock a respectable party o f t h e i n h a bi tants o f Wemyss sat down to an excellent di nner , a ft er w hi c h; in the juice of the grape, they drank, with every de monstration of respect, the health of the noble and happy pair, on whose account the meeting was held, as also that of the respective members of the families of St. Clair and Wemyss, accompanied with the ex pression of the most ardent and heartfelt wishes for the happines s an d prosperity of every br a n c h of these il lustrious h ousies . Macy other appropriate toas ts were drank, and the meeting passed off with the greatest harmony and conviviality. At the ball in the evening dancing was kept up with the utmost spirit till an early hour next morning.--Edin6negh Ev en i ng Courant. ii fy No. 1.0,645. erhlN 2 4 ‘./ 444‘i V PRICE 7D.